We are very proud of these girls in our class. They won highly commended in our Maths Week Mathscot competition. Well done!

We have been taking part in lots of Maths Week activities this week. We have been embracing the outdoors with maths themed activities. First of all we took part in a estimating and measuring challenge to measure the height of different trees in the woodland.

We learned to play a strategy game called the “Game of Nim”, which involved working with a partner to gather 20 stones. We then took it in turns to remove either 1,2 or 3 stones at a time, with the aim of the game being not to end up with the remaining one stone at the end.

We explored how symmetry was in nature and how it linked to the Fibonacci spiral. We have created Symmetry in Nature posters to display in our classroom.

We had great fun doing the Colour Run!

Hello to all the P5B blog readers, it’s Mr Atkinson here! As you will know this year I am doing NCCT for P5B with a focus on developing Crookfurs Enquiry Based Learning approach so I wanted to give you an update of what we have been doing.

Before beginning our new Learning Journeys the class has revisited some of the Meta-Skills that were introduced to them last year such as communicating, collaborating and creativity. Recently we have explored the Meta-Skills; leading, feeling and integrity. The children have been encouraged to consider the feelings of others by discussing how we can support each other when we are upset. To help with our discussions about integrity the pupils shared a time when they were faced with a moral dilemma and explained how they managed the situation. They have also reflected on the importance of learning from mistakes rather than holding onto the feeling of disappointment when getting a question wrong. The pupils had a fantastic time applying their leadership qualities during a boardroom scenario. In this situation one pupil was late to the meeting and under guidance from the ‘boss’ the latecomer had to use the clues to guess what was being discussed – which led to some great hilarity!

We have been working on our Data Handling skills this week. We were using chromebooks to create a questionnaire using Forms and learning how to analyse the data and display it using a bar graph.  The children have had a great time learning how to draw bar graphs accurately using a titles, labels and different scales.

Over the next few weeks we are very lucky as two sixth year pupils from Eastwood High School are coming to work with our class on a Friday afternoon. This week we were learning about an orchestra and the different musical instrument families. We even got to have a go and playing some instruments. It was brilliant and we are lookingforward to next week.